Mega Mags, Life Sized Magnetic Toys

A random user noted MegaMags , a life size version of the popular MiniMag toys available at ThinkGeek (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now). You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/141222

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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/141222 3&tid=159 [slashdot.org]

Re:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/141

[DarkMantle]

Worst part is, both were posted By Taco

Re:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/141

[Striikerr]

Here's the plan..

-> Sit back and collect all of the mod points from 11am.

Sigh, if they want to something original. How about hosting ./ on IIS for the day on April 1st?

Re:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/141

[aklix]

That's not funny that's just annoying... we'd get even more internal server errors then usual, along with the bad M$ error page.

Erm..

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The purposeful dupes weren't funny last year, either.. :(

Erm...

[nebaz]

The purposeful dupes_weren't funny last year, either.. :(

Re:Erm...

[dJCL]

The purposeful dupes_weren't funny last year, either.. :)

Re:Erm...

[Tongo]

The purposeful dupes_weren't funny last year, either.. :)(

Re:Erm...

[roadrunnerro]

The purposeful dupesweren't funny last year, either.. :(

Re:Erm..

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

I tried to submit a funny April Fools story. For some reason...it was rejected.

Terri Schiavo Back From The Dead! Friday April 01, @02:44PM Rejected

Quick too!

Re:Erm..

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

"Terri Schiavo awoke from the dead early this morning. She broke out of the temporary morgue in the local Hospice Care building. Four nurses and 2 doctors were killed before the building was evacuated. Mrs. Schiavo's Husband remained behind, obviously in shock. Zombie-Schiavo ate her Husband's brains(sssss), and then proceeded to break out of the Hospice Building through the locked front doors. Police were standing by. While attempting to stop Zombie-Schiavo twelve officers were killed and five more were w

Re:Erm..

[flosofl]

Well, to be fair the giant magnets were added. Although I have to say it was a pretty sloppy job on the photoshopping (or was it GIMPing?). The connector spheres' reflections are all wrong. It kinda jumped out at me. I think they were a little too ambitious on this one. The other catalog entries at least looked plausable...

Re:Erm..

[vwjeff]

The purposeful dupes weren't funny last year, either.. :(

Who said this was on purpose?

Re:Thank you slashdot...

[Pec]

I think that ruined everyones April Fools Day, this has turned to a nonsense stupid stuff. :-b

Bah

[irving47]

I didn't fall for it in my email this morning, I'm not falling for it here!
Some of the products are really funny though. Especially the green laser airline tracker.

iMasturbate...

[ThomasFlip]

a lot. Maybe I should whore myself on Thinkgeek... Then again maybe not.

Re:iMasturbate...

[CyberKnet]

Actually, it (the device) really does come in two forms, the iCopulate and the iMasturbate. iCopulate is an add-on for the iPartner product. iMasterbate is essentially a loop back device enabling the iPod to copy files to its self. In this case, the lube is optional, but really speeds things up.

Somebody mentioned that the internal project name for iMasturbate was "Hand Jobs a Winner". That's just a little too bizarre to believe... isn't it? Then again... we are talking about a product that has passed thro

Availability?

[The Spoony]

'Happy Time'

Grr.

[Anonymous Coward]

Grrrrr. Just a few more hours of this...
(first!)

Re:Grr.

[mmkkbb]

Are you kidding? This will continue as long as at least one time zone on the planet still shows April 1.

Fake Ghostlike Photons

[jthayden]

Ha Think Geek Fools Post

Re:Fake Ghostlike Photons

[Antyrael]

Fools shop at Think Geek

Re:anagram

[D3]

Think Geek Spots A Fool!

Re:anagram

[D3]

H leftover! Damn!

I hate Slashdot on April Fools

[Flashbck]

I just don't waste time at work as well because I don't feel like reading these stories

Re:I hate Slashdot on April Fools

[ack154]

Yet... not only do you READ them... but you're commenting on them too!

Re:I hate Slashdot on April Fools

[Flashbck]

Well I actually only read one today then I remembered that it was april fools and gave up hope on slashdot for the day

As for my posting...I know it's really sad

And...

[magicsquid]

And for those of you who didn't notice... you can read the same freaking thing posted just 2 hours ago! By the same person no less.

Re:And...

[CosmeticLobotamy]

That's the joke, genius.

Re:And...

[krgallagher]

And for those of you who didn't notice... you can read the same freaking thing posted just 2 hours ago! By the same person no less.

Sounds like a conspiracy!

Hey!

[Captoo]

That would make a great system for disposing of AOL CD's, retired floppy disks, etc. If the media is magnetic, it can erase it. Otherwise, it can simply crush it to death.

Did we not just see this article?

[jackelfish]

If memory serves, there was already a ThinkGeek April fools article here this morning.

Instance #2 of x...

[Dakhran]

Bet this pisses off those people with the "dupe post" hate-on. Two words: "GET OVER IT".

Re:Instance #2 of x...

[rco3]

.... and then it brings out the "dupe-post hater" haters. Three words: "Get Over!"

Re:Super-duper-dupe

[DonServo]

Well, given the passionately violent responses to dupes normally seen around here, Taco would certainly not do this intentionally...

Slashdot has been taken over

[spac3manspiff]

by a band of monkeys!!

APRIL FO.. no wait

Re:Slashdot has been taken over

[Chanc_Gorkon]

No....Slashdot IS ran by a bunch of monkeys. Much cheaper.

Re:Slashdot has been taken over

[ricotest]

I'm pretty sure it was CmdrTaco attempting to be funny. The wording is almost identical, right down to the 'conspiracy theories' and misspelling of 'executive'.

The ThinkGeek guys must write for Leno

[mrshowtime]

The funny thing is that someone out there would have bought the "executive pong".

Re:The ThinkGeek guys must write for Leno

[mobets]

If I had a the money, easily $1000 due to the projector, I would certainly buy one. I think it's a cool idea, maybe someone should make something like this on a smaller scale. Ditch the DLP and use wired controllers instead of bluetooth. Could probobly be done for a decent price and I would want one. Seriously.

It's not a dupe

[Hanzo]

The title is different, and it was posted by different people, it can't *possibly* be a dupe

Re:It's not a dupe

[FortKnox]

And here I thought that slashdot posting a story about how its cracking down on dupes would have been the best april fools joke of all....

Re:It's not a dupe

[johndiii]

Congrats, FK! 7000 comments. Now you really don't have a life. :-)

Perhaps Michael has a life now, though something tells me he will just find another place to exercise his small-mindedness. :-D

Re:It's not a dupe

[lbmouse]

An April Fools joke dupe that is promoting a company owned by Slashdot's parent. Geez, how much more annoying can you get?

Life sized erotic magnetic toys?

[AtariAmarok]

There has to be some Xmen geek somewhere with a big homoerotic fixation on Magneto. But, I mean, really.

Why oh why...

[kclittle]

...do I always get 5 /. mod points on April 1? I mean, what's the use? I could just grade every post 'funny' or 'troll' without reading them...

iCopulate

[hesiod]

My favorite part: "Directly" is, evidently, faster than real-time! :) Happy 4/1.... 4/20 will be happier.

Hey, why not?

[Council]

I thought, looking at a lot of these, that they would be things someone might legitimately buy, if for a conversation piece if nothing else. I wonder if Aprl Fools' day joke might double as a way to actually sell things.

After all, I'm giving away Google Gulp caps for free -- I got one in the mail last night [livejournal.com], see -- but I hear some people are selling them on eBay.

Re:Hey, why not?

[Dashing Leech]

"I thought, looking at a lot of these, that they would be things someone might legitimately buy, if for a conversation piece if nothing else."

What I find even funnier is that you can actually buy magnetic tetrahedrons (tetranom) at about the size they show (though smaller balls) and even up to 2 m per bar length. They're used as 3D measurement standards [metronom.de] and are even thermally compensated. Of course they cost $10K+ a piece. We have one in-house.

Re:Hey, why not?

[fallen1]

And, apparently, a lot of people are cashing in! See here [ebay.com] and also do an eBay search for google gulp. One person has a $10,000 plus bid on his. Just crazy. :)

Huh...

[The-Bus]

Here's a reply post. I'm just going to write whatever. I figure if Slashdot doesn't have to try today, neither do I.

dupid

[perbert]

there must be some economic incentive to push ThinkGeek today...

Shit is a bad word

[ServerXP]

i left my account logged in on a public console. Please ban my account. Please ban my account.

wait, i got one!

[Anonymous Coward]

You guys should put up a static /. home page that says "due to the amount of great news today, the slashdot site has been slashdotted." Comedy gold, I tell you.

I love April 1st

[Quiet_Desperation]

There's a lot of funny stuff out there, and that;s just the tech media.

And yet this country can't seem to produce a decent comedy moovie to save its life.

serious

[mecro]

Its too bad Slashdot will never become a reputible source for news when they pull stunts like these every year.

Re:serious

[dJCL]

yeah, but check what zug.com pulled the past few days using fark as a medium...

Nobody is a trustworthy news source these days.

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FASTEST DUPLICATE EVAR

[argent]

Damn, that must be a record for dup stories...

New world record

[dmccarty]

Wow, reposting something he himself posted 6 articles ago. This must be a new dupe record for Taco. I guess we know who the April Fool is this year.

Re:New world record

[Metapsyborg]

Mod -1, missed the joke.

Cool idea

[Lord_Dweomer]

The sad thing is, this would actually be a really cool idea for a sculpture for your house that you could constantly change. Sure it wouldn't be cheap, but it would still be cool.

And why is it that they only announce their connection with TG on April Fools, and not on any of the other occasions when they post a TG Slashvertisement?

Must use cash to purchase...

[AnonymousKev]

I tried to buy these at a local Toys R Us. I carried them to the counter, but --for some mysterious reason-- none of my credit cards would work. I paid cash and carried them out of the store. The good thing was, I didn't have to walk to my car -- it came to me. The bad thing was, all the other cars in the parking lot came to me too.

I put the MegaMags in my trunk and drove home. On my way, I heard a giant "click", almost as if a satellite had taken my photo. While I was distracted, I ran off the road and h

For Catholic iPods - iFornicate...

[TheRealStyro]

Includes a guilt and auto-purchase module. After disconnection of iPods, a Shuttle is charged to your account and shipped 9 months later.

If you cancel or dispute the charge you get a sharp note from the GOP and a one year membership with planned parenthood.

... What I wanna know is ...

[ninjagin]

... if I were to actually order these haha-funny thinkgeek items, would I be 1) charged for the item, 2) charged, then refunded, or 3) not charged at all?

DUPEEEEEE

[ResQuad]

Jesus ed's. Come on its April 1st and you still managed to dupe. THERES NOTHING GOING ON AND THE ARTICLES WERE A FEW HOURS APART.

Sheesh.

Other items

[cfpresley]

Check out the other items, I've figured out the shirt anagram, its pretty cool.

They are selling an anagram shirt

[arglesnaf]

The shirt says Fake Ghostlike Photons [thinkgeek.com] which is an anagram for "Fools shop at think geek"

I extracted "Think Geek" and "Fools" from the string, and fed the rest to an anagram generator [wordsmith.org]

Re:They are selling an anagram shirt

[ivan256]

I think it's more like a subliminal order:

"Shop at ThinkGeek fools!"

Yuck!

[OmegaBlac]

You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized.

I hope this won't lead to an "explosion" of ipod pr0n now! *shudders*

Big babies

[Scythik]

It amazes me that if people posting here are in IT, a world where nothing is ever good enough and the standards of the customer are too high. Then aren't you all being hypocrites by applying your customer's standards to slashdot? The editors are having fun, give them a break. All I see on here is hate post after hate post every single day. It also amazes me when someone has the time to lookup all of the repeat articles and post them like they discovered gold. Are people on here proud that they can put dow

There's a fine line

[winkydink]

betwen a practical joke and just plain being an asshole. Where's the line? Turn around, you just crossed over it.